Display device.



PATENTBD APR. 10, 1907.

S. W. HUNTINGTON. DISPLAY DEVICE. APPLloATIoN H1111) JUNE a0. 1905.

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DISPLAY DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 16, 1907.

Application filed .Tune 30,1905. I Serial No. 267,795.

To @ZZ whom, it muy conoci/'m' Be it known that I, SAMUEL W. HUNTING- TON, a citizen of the Uni-ted States, residing at Aberdeen, in the county of Brown and State of South Dakota, have invented a new and useful Display Device, of which the following is a specification.

`This invention relates to devices for displaying articles of variousl kinds in convenient and accessible position and which are l at the same time efliectually protected from injury from dust or exposure when not reuired.

l/Vith these and other objects in view, which will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters, is illustrated the preferred form of the embodiment of the inven tion capable of carrying the same into practical operation. f

ln the drawings thus employed, Figure 1 1 is a front elevation, partly in section, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation, partly in section, of the improved device. Fig. 3 is a sectional detail illustrating a modification in the construction.

The improved device may be employed for the storage and display of various kinds of articles or goods, but is designed more particularly for the storage and display of skeins of silk and similarly-arranged.materials and for the purpose of illustration is shown adapted for goods of this character.

The improved device comprises an outer casing 10, open at the front and with a detachable closure 11 at the rear, the latter secured either by screws 12 or hinged, as at 26, or by other suitable means to enable it to be readily detached. The casing may be of any required size or of any suitable material and may be in any fanciful or ornamental design. Attached to the inner faces of the upper and lower members of the casing 10 next to the open front portion are stops 13 14, and the interior of the casing may be divided by vertical partitions 15 into a plurality of relatively narrow compartments. the compartments is a frame or vertical drawer formed with closed front 16, rear 17, top 18, bottom 19, and back 2O and with stops 21 22, respectively, upon the inner ends of the top and bottom members '18 19 for engaging the stop members 13 14 of the casi-ng when the frames are drawn outward to the fullest extent to limit their outward movement and prevent removal from the casing. Each frame will also lhave a knob 28 or other suitable means for handling the same. By this arrangement it will 'be obvious that the several frames may be inserted into their several compartments before the back 11 is placed in position and are then irremovable from the casing unless the back is .again removed, while at the same time the frames can be independently drawn outward through the front of the casing until the stop members 21 22 thereon engage the stop members 13 14 of the casing.

Each of the sliding frames is provided with one or more shelves 23, and each shelf is provided with a riser member 24, extending upwardly from member 19 of each frame is likewise provided with a riser member 2r. Attached to the back member 20 of each frame, just below the shelves 23 and also below the to mem ber 18, are means, such as hooks 29, or supporting the goods to be displayed-aa for instance, silk or like goods in skeins, as at 27l` the lower ends ofthe skeins extending behind the risers 24 25 and protected and guarded thereby. -lt will thus be obvious that the goods may be displayed in a readily-accessible position and each article also maintained in separate position and independently removable from or detachable from the hooks without disturbing any of the other articles. The goods may thus be exhibited without injury or ythe necessity for handling any of the goods except those required by the custonier.

The device can be inex ensively constructed, and of any requiredp size, and with any required number of frames or vertical drawers, and in single units or in multiple sections, and with the vertical partitions, as in Figs. 1 and 2, or without the partitions, as in Fig. 3. The frames being of the same size are interchangeable, and by removing the back 11 two or more of the frames may be removed and reinserted in another position with very little trouble and in a very short Slidably disposed in each of period of time.

It frequently happens that it is desirable to rearrange the goods in the display-frames l or to place the goods in one of the frames at its outer edge, and the bottom IOO IIO

from the top and upwardly from the bottom of the easing, the interchangeable displayirames each having stops projecting' from the upper and lower surfaces of their rear ends,

another part of the main inelosing-oasing 10, and this can be very readily done in the device herein described, as above noted. The labor and time for thus changing or trans ferring the trames is greatly lessened by eml the stops or the frames slidably engaging the ploying the hinged back, as shown in Fig. 3. .i upper and lower walls of the easing, and the his is an important feature of the invention l stops of the easing slidably engaging the upand adds materially to the value and elliper and lower walls of the frames, whereby cieney of the device. said frames are guided and supported during Having thus described the invention, what I movement to and from display position.

I In testimony that .l claim the foregoing as is claimed is own I have hereto ailiXed my signature l In a display device, a easing, and a plurality l my of display-frames removable and interehange- 1n the presence of two witnesses.

able from the rear of the easing and movable SAMUEL 7 HUNTINGTON 'outward from the front of the easingl to display position, said easing having top, bottom i' Witnesses:

and side members, and being open at the f W-P. BUTLER.

front and rear, stop-ribs extending downward L. T. VAN DYiE. 

